java environment + cron issue

2004-09-01 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
On a unix RH8 box starting and stopping TC 5.0.18 under the root account using the following script: #!/bin/sh # This script stops tomcat for (about) 1 minute, and then restarts it # it is run at the same time as the script to backup the # database (which is shutdown, and a file level copy made)

Re: java environment + cron issue

2004-09-01 Thread Andre Legendre
I don't know the cause of your problem, but personaly I use nohup to start commands from cron : nohup /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.18/bin/shutdown.sh nohup manage in good way standard input and output (you can pass options) and keep your task running after father task die. Hope it help. Andre

Re: java environment + cron issue

2004-09-01 Thread Kazuhito SUGURI
Hi John, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:01:24 +0100, John Sidney-Woollett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: johnsw On a unix RH8 box starting and stopping TC 5.0.18 under the root account johnsw using the following script: [snip] johnsw However if the script is invoked from cron, the

Re: java environment + cron issue

2004-09-01 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
You might try compare results of /usr/bin/env executed from cron and command-line. You may need to set some environment variables, LANG for example, to make JVM works as you expected. You're right - when the script is run by cron the LANG environment variable is undefined. I will modify the